Nodal @ HandsFree 3 @ Guildford Lane Gallery

Dear Students

I’m performing some improvsed computer music on Wednesday night using Nodal. There will be some interesting and talented people playing – it would be nice to see you if you can make it.

Peter Mcilwain

Hands Free III – 17/03/2010

Hands Free is a night about software doing things. Musicians and programmers come together in duets between instrumentalists and pieces of software, along with other experiments in autonomy.

This month we have works by Peter McIlwain, Mark Pederson, and Isambard Khroustaliov, who will be delivering a live system from the UK, and performances by Brigid Burke, Adrian Sherriff and Melike Ulgezer.

Works

Mark Pederson: Invisible Territory, generative music work (with performance by Adrian Sherriff)

Peter McIlwain: live performance using Nodal

Isambard Khroustaliov: Axiom, generative music work (with performance by Brigid Burke)

Mark Pederson: Fragments of Sainthood, generative music work (with performance by Melike Ulgezer)

Ollie Bown, Ross Bencina, Brigid Burke, Adrian Sherriff: Double Prosthetic Duo, improvisation.

Details

Date: 17th March 2010.

Location: Guildford Lane Gallery, Guildford Lane, Melbourne 3000.

Time: doors 6pm, music 7 – 9pm.

Entry: free / donations.

Nodal 1.5.0 Demo

We’ve been working away to get the commercial release of Nodal out and its going to happen next week. As a prelude I’ve posted a performance on Nodal using Logic synth engines on You Tube. Have a listen. Here’s the blurb on the youtube page:

A sneak peak of the new version of nodal (coming very soon). This is a short piece by Peter Mcilwain using a prerelease version of the software. Logic is used for its synth engines (which is shown just at the start). Unlike the last Nodal demo, this one is a bit more like “here’s something I prepared earlier” and there is no note programming. Instead a more complex network is given and the video shows how you can turn on and off parts of it in an interactive way.

PMc

More Music with Plants and other things

Well, we where discussing music with plants yesterday and I came across the following on Create Digital:

you can see more at theNK workshop Myspace page 

The basic technology here is the theremin coupled with Pd (which is another form of MaxMSP.

 

Peter Mc

createdigitalmusic.com

I have found this blog to be very interesting. If you are into the latest in emusic in a range of ways. Have a look.

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Nodal on You Tube

Hi Composers

I have put up a single take performance of me using Nodal on YouTube. This is to promote the release of Nodal 1.1. Just as a favour, if you want to comment,  could you post comments for this on the You Tube site? See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbFwJB-YF_k

(this is not a Rick Astley link – honest).

 

Peter Mc

Nodal Version 1.1beta Released!

Nodal is a software project that I and fellow researchers that the Centre for Electronic Media Art have been developing for a number of years now. We recently received a grant to develop the software further. It is an interesting way to create computer generated music. For those of you working on the Ringtone project it might be useful.

A screen shot of Nodal

About Nodal

Nodal is a generative software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is then traversed by any number of players who play the musical events as they encounter them on the graph. The time taken to travel from one node to another is based on the length of the edges that connect the nodes.

Nodal is free software available for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows computers.

To read more and download the software see:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/nodal/